The official OCR raw-mark thresholds for June 2025, straight from OCR's own published table. Plus what the numbers actually tell you about the papers, which most boundary pages leave out.
Every paper is out of 80 and each is worth a third of the qualification.
| Component | Max | A* | A | B | C | D | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H418/01 — The legal system and criminal law | 80 | 62 | 52 | 41 | 31 | 21 | 11 |
| H418/02 — Law making and the law of tort | 80 | 57 | 48 | 39 | 29 | 19 | 10 |
| H418/03 — The nature of law and human rights | 80 | 56 | 47 | 38 | 29 | 20 | 11 |
| H418/04 — The nature of law and the law of contract | 80 | 56 | 47 | 38 | 29 | 20 | 11 |
| Overall qualification | 240 | 175 | 147 | 118 | 89 | 60 | 32 |
An A is 61%, not 80%. 147 out of 240. A C is 89 out of 240 — just 37%. If you have been assuming Law works like a percentage grade at school, you have been marking yourself far too harshly. More students give up on this subject over that misunderstanding than over the content.
Paper 1 had the highest boundaries of the three. 62 for an A* against 57 on Paper 2 and 56 on Papers 3 and 4. Boundaries are set after marking, so a higher boundary means candidates scored better on that paper — the legal system and criminal law is the paper everyone revises hardest. That cuts both ways: it is the paper where dropping marks costs you most, because the rest of the cohort is not dropping them.
The gap between grades is roughly 29 marks. A* to A is 28, A to B is 29, B to C is 29. That is about seven or eight marks per paper, which is one problem question answered properly. Grades in this subject move in single questions, not in wholesale rewrites.
| Component | Max | A | B | C | D | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H018/01 — The legal system and criminal law | 64 | 39 | 33 | 27 | 21 | 15 |
| H018/02 — Law making and the law of tort | 64 | 35 | 29 | 23 | 17 | 12 |
| Overall qualification | 128 | 74 | 62 | 50 | 38 | 27 |
Read this before you use any of it. Grade boundaries are set after every paper has been marked, so they change every series and nobody can tell you next summer's in advance. These are June 2025 figures and they are useful as a guide, not a promise. Always check your own results against the official table for your series at ocr.org.uk. If a grade matters, a remark is your route, not arithmetic on this page.
